Joe, you are comparing Apples to Grapes!
An iPhone is one product made by one company on one platform for one carrier.
Droid is NOT a product it is just an OS. Google doesn’t even SELL it, they make their money off the Ads the pop up on your phone.
Google doesn’t make the phones, DOZENS of phone makers Make the phones. All kinds of phones. And many of them run the Droid OS.
But you are counting OS market share NOT any particular PRODUCT like the iPhone’s marketshare.
If Google was giving away an OS to every carrier that exists, and wasn’t able to top Apple’s one product, on one carrier, I would be WORRIED about them.
But this comparison is like saying how many Cadillac Escalades were sold vs how many Bus Passes were given away.
Mostly an irrelevant set of data.
Naaaah.
You are coming up with the same discredted excuses that the Applebots drag up whenever Apple is getting clobbered in market share in any market.
Nothing new here. We have been hearing the same crap whenever Windows PC's clobber the Aple mac in IDC/Dataquest market share figures.
“An iPhone is one product made by one company on one platform for one carrier.”
The iPhone is carried by a huge number of carriers across the world, including cell phone companies in Korea and China. These are worldwide figures. Stop spewing out garbage.
“Droid is NOT a product it is just an OS. “
An OS is not a product?
Since when?
How ,any OS’s have you written?
“Google doesn’t even SELL it, they make their money off the Ads the pop up on your phone.”
This article is about Andriod smartphone sales, not just OS sales. Read it. Then you can comment, ok?
“But you are counting OS market share NOT any particular PRODUCT like the iPhone’s marketshare”
This article based on figures from Canalys, is counting Android smartphone sales, not Android OS sales. These are physical smartphones. Get it?
“If Google was giving away an OS to every carrier that exists, and wasn’t able to top Apple’s one product, on one carrier, I would be WORRIED about them.”
Androids are clobbering the iPhones in market share. Read the figures.
“But this comparison is like saying how many Cadillac Escalades were sold vs how many Bus Passes were given away”
Umm..no.
Andrid smartphnes are selling at the same $200 as iPhones are. No Andriod smartphoines are being given away here. You gotta dip in your pocket and pay for the phones, same as you pay for the iPhones. Get it?
What more garbage you gotta spew out?
I know this must must be confusing to you, dearie, but Droid is a phone line made by Motorola, including the Droid, Droid Eris, and Droid X.
Android is a free OS that Google rolled and released to run phones.
Please try to at least look like you know what you're talking about if you're going to participate in the discussions...